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, not before the 2008 election. it was before the 2012 election and he was honest. he was basically the liberal challenging barack obama to say how he didn't live up to these promises that he made us in the difference to me was obvious. that is what i was seeing last year. and i felt like you know that is the problem. and the other thing with colbert in "the daily show" is that they don't have to show the other side. they don't have to be -- and that is what makes journalism boring sometimes and not as hard-hitting as you like or doesn't get into people's faces. that whole thing, we have got to be fair and that i think is always going to put us one step behind because they can say whatever they want and they can look like they are there but we have to actually be there. >> i just wanted to ask how you think reality television shows get into some of the things you are talking about and race baiting? >> thank you so much. i didn't even give you any money for that but it's in the book about reality television. yeah wel
, not before the 2008 election. it was before the 2012 election and he was honest. he was basically the liberal challenging barack obama to say how he didn't live up to these promises that he made us in the difference to me was obvious. that is what i was seeing last year. and i felt like you know that is the problem. and the other thing with colbert in "the daily show" is that they don't have to show the other side. they don't have to be -- and that is what makes journalism boring...
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at the bottom line for what i did in my book is not electing stupid people we are not electing and patriotic people. we are electing good people who are trapped in a system that we have created the three words and stability, rewards intransigence , that punishes cooperation and compromise and then we are shocked at the result we get so that's what my book is about and i am glad to talk about that. i want to hear about my next book but that's where i was coming from. >> that is pretty scary but that's our congress, that our government and that's part of the political process. now, has mickey was laying out in the first scenario, the race and the christine o'donnell race, both of those happened on my watch as national chairman. and i remember meeting with a group of very, very excited and some argue excitable republicans about a month after i had become chairman who were laying out for me a new strategy that was beginning to emerge from iran of the country and they called themselves to a party years. i said what's the deal and they were very clear about the focus that they wanted to bring to t
at the bottom line for what i did in my book is not electing stupid people we are not electing and patriotic people. we are electing good people who are trapped in a system that we have created the three words and stability, rewards intransigence , that punishes cooperation and compromise and then we are shocked at the result we get so that's what my book is about and i am glad to talk about that. i want to hear about my next book but that's where i was coming from. >> that is pretty...
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i was watching election coverage in november, and on election day they seemed to keep coming back, to this voting area in philadelphia where this guy was a member of the new black party -- black panther party was launching. he was opening doors for people coming to vote the he was standing out in front of the polling place opened the door for people and standing there as a volunteer for the as far as i know they were the only news outlet that were continually cutting back to this point place. it just, why i was in so much time dealing with the transcend? they are a very small group of people have many members. they have been criticized as a hate group by the southern poverty law center. they are antiwhite. they have problems with jewish people. they are a hate group in a lot of ways but they're also very small and don't have a lot of influence, so why is fox news talk about them so much? well, because fox news core audience, their target audience, people, that niche is mostly middle-class, mostly middle-aged, although bit more male than female, and what is one of their greatest fears?
i was watching election coverage in november, and on election day they seemed to keep coming back, to this voting area in philadelphia where this guy was a member of the new black party -- black panther party was launching. he was opening doors for people coming to vote the he was standing out in front of the polling place opened the door for people and standing there as a volunteer for the as far as i know they were the only news outlet that were continually cutting back to this point place....
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that youtube had in the iranian or the middle eastern arab spring revolutions, but also in american elections. and the third is the blurring of fact and opinion. we lived in an era prior to this where we thought there was a clear line between when journalists were presenting us factual information from a neutral or father or perspective -- fair perspective and when we were hearing opinions. that has broken down. and those three changes, we think, have been driven by a variety of things, not the least of which is the technological revolution that we've undergone over the last 20 years. >> host: professor, have we lost important gatekeepers of news, in your view? >> guest: i think that is one of the central themes of the book which is that we now live in a world that we call somewhat nerdily multiaxialty. what we mean by that term is really pretty simple which is the ways in which information can become public information and paid attention to by a lot of people is much more fluid, there are many more gates than there used to be. you could argue that you don't even need gates because the walls
that youtube had in the iranian or the middle eastern arab spring revolutions, but also in american elections. and the third is the blurring of fact and opinion. we lived in an era prior to this where we thought there was a clear line between when journalists were presenting us factual information from a neutral or father or perspective -- fair perspective and when we were hearing opinions. that has broken down. and those three changes, we think, have been driven by a variety of things, not the...
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i was watching election coverage in november, and on election day they seemed to keep cutting back to this voting area in philadelphia where guy who was a member of the new black panther apparently was also volunteering to help people, you know, he's opening the doors so people could come in and vote. i guess he might explain a ballot to them, but he was standing out in front of the polling place and standing there as a volunteer. as far as i know, they were the only news outlet that was continually cutting back to this polling place. and it just -- why are we spending so much time looking at this guy from the new black panther party? the they're a very small group, they don't have very many members, they've been criticized as a hate group by the southern poverty law center. they're anti-white, they have problems with jewish people. you know, they're a hate group in a lot of ways, but they're also very small, and they don't have a lot of influence, so why is fox news talking about them so much? well, because fox news' core audience, their target audience, that in each that they're ser
i was watching election coverage in november, and on election day they seemed to keep cutting back to this voting area in philadelphia where guy who was a member of the new black panther apparently was also volunteering to help people, you know, he's opening the doors so people could come in and vote. i guess he might explain a ballot to them, but he was standing out in front of the polling place and standing there as a volunteer. as far as i know, they were the only news outlet that was...
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bush gets elected. after the most controversial election, 36 days to decide, no coattails all and in a very weakened position in the popular vote it just reminds people can do but have been easy for democrats to stomp all over him right from the beginning and basically damage the weakened presidency. first thing is bush pushed to initiatives when he got there. no child left behind and tax cuts. no child left behind moves through in a model bipartisan fashion with the impetus coming from george miller and ted kennedy, liberal democrats. now, you can say well, they like that policy. but the fact is that in doing so, they gave legitimacy to bush and made his presidency stronger. a democratic votes enable the tax cuts to go through what are you like them or don't like them. then we had 9/11 and rallying both parties behind the range of legislation some of which was quite controversial but almost unanimous support. then you move on to the t.a.r.p. program rejected first by republicans and it was democrats th
bush gets elected. after the most controversial election, 36 days to decide, no coattails all and in a very weakened position in the popular vote it just reminds people can do but have been easy for democrats to stomp all over him right from the beginning and basically damage the weakened presidency. first thing is bush pushed to initiatives when he got there. no child left behind and tax cuts. no child left behind moves through in a model bipartisan fashion with the impetus coming from george...
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. >>> jonathan alter reports on the 2012 presidential election and president obama's re-election team unit losed analytics. this event from the commonwealth club of california in san francisco is about an hour and fifteen minutes. you can find us on the internet at commonwealth club.org or download the iphone or android app for program and schedule information and pod cast of past programs. how is that for a lit ration. now it's my pleasure to intro-- introduce our speaker, columnist, and writer. jonathan alter. a writer and a contributor to the bloomberg. author of the new book we'll talk about "the center holds: obama and his enemies." as i he's an analyst and contributing correspondent. you've seen him on nbc and msnbc. he worked for almost thirty years writing more than fifty cover story. me wrote for "the new york times," the wall street, vanity fair, and the new republican. he's the author of other books fkd -- he is a, in my judgment, probably one of the preimminent experts in this country on president obama. we are pleased and honored to have him here tonight to speak about hi
. >>> jonathan alter reports on the 2012 presidential election and president obama's re-election team unit losed analytics. this event from the commonwealth club of california in san francisco is about an hour and fifteen minutes. you can find us on the internet at commonwealth club.org or download the iphone or android app for program and schedule information and pod cast of past programs. how is that for a lit ration. now it's my pleasure to intro-- introduce our speaker, columnist,...
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we put so much in behind the election of barack obama but those in between elections where we maintain laws like stand your ground we sometimes seek those out and we need to be just as vigilant and those kinds of elections as well. [applause] >> i came a little late. many of you may be old enough to remember -- many of you may be old enough to remember, we had a trayvon martin called michael griffin and we had a trayvon martin called yousef hargis and we had an attorney by the name of alton maddox junior who won those cases and the people who killed those young black men went to jail for 30 years to life. [applause] so the question is how calm the expert at doing this, how come he is not on "msnbc"? how come he is not on cnn? he is an expert when it comes to these racial slight motivated cases. he was illegally suspended from the practice of law because he absolutely dominated the criminal bar. they couldn't beat him. and so i ask when you go about talking about these things mention alton because our children need to know. we have a lawyer, still alive, that one these cases and if he w
we put so much in behind the election of barack obama but those in between elections where we maintain laws like stand your ground we sometimes seek those out and we need to be just as vigilant and those kinds of elections as well. [applause] >> i came a little late. many of you may be old enough to remember -- many of you may be old enough to remember, we had a trayvon martin called michael griffin and we had a trayvon martin called yousef hargis and we had an attorney by the name of...
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civility is what loses elections. it may win you the moral high ground, but good luck as the tide rises because the tide of liberalism is rising. it is not in retreat. and the only way to force it into retreat, it's not going to be efficient any, guess what, the rails of history? there's a train on them, and train is coming, and it's going to hit us. the only way to fight that train is to have a train moving precisely the same speed or faster in the opposite direction. will there be a crash? sure. but at least it'll derail them, and that's the whole point. thanks so much. [applause] >> i'll try not to flash my pearly whites too much. [laughter] we will be glad to take questions. if you will, wait for andrew and the microphone, it will be appreciated for the recording of the events here in the room. first question? just a moment for the mic. >> excuse me. >> hi. that was a great, great talk. you know, one of my pet peeves regarding this whole topic of of bullying and how you say the left makes us is the morning joke on
civility is what loses elections. it may win you the moral high ground, but good luck as the tide rises because the tide of liberalism is rising. it is not in retreat. and the only way to force it into retreat, it's not going to be efficient any, guess what, the rails of history? there's a train on them, and train is coming, and it's going to hit us. the only way to fight that train is to have a train moving precisely the same speed or faster in the opposite direction. will there be a crash?...
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we're always so focused on the presidential election. look at the state legislatures and the governorships. we are doing pretty well in the states. if we could translate that to the house of representatives and the senate, we don't need the white house. i would love to take the white house but, you know, it might be fun not to worry about the end of america every november, every four years. >> last question before he we go to the audience. at cpac i believe it was an 2011 you famously and correctly predicted that the republicans would nominate mitt romney and would lose the election. who's going to win the nomination next time? and are they going to win? >> that was two years out. by the way, i did support ron in 2008. i'm often accused on msnbc hypocrisy or just being fickle because of that. that was at least 2010. it was two years before the election and my point was, the main point of that cpac speech was, there is the obama magic. it was mostly it's almost impossible to take out and come and i just thought, you can't take out an incu
we're always so focused on the presidential election. look at the state legislatures and the governorships. we are doing pretty well in the states. if we could translate that to the house of representatives and the senate, we don't need the white house. i would love to take the white house but, you know, it might be fun not to worry about the end of america every november, every four years. >> last question before he we go to the audience. at cpac i believe it was an 2011 you famously and...
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we elect leaders, and they ain't working. and if you went to your job and did what the congress did and the senate did, they don't work. so churches are doing the same thing. churches are having issues right now, and how do we build up the black church to be that institution that it needs to be within our communities and to make those bridges across religious lines? because it's not just about christianity, it's about all the rest of these religious traditions we have in the african-american tradition. and it is a moment where we have to come together, or we will fail. this democratic process is trying to crush us right now, or at least what is passing for democracy. the it's really a right-wing theocracy. and you need to begin to think about how the message of the gospel, the pure, unadulterated message of jesus christ, was a radical message that said, you know, we're for the poor, we are for the broken-hearted, we're for the folks that don't have no money to go to the hospital. it's not this other god. so we these to really
we elect leaders, and they ain't working. and if you went to your job and did what the congress did and the senate did, they don't work. so churches are doing the same thing. churches are having issues right now, and how do we build up the black church to be that institution that it needs to be within our communities and to make those bridges across religious lines? because it's not just about christianity, it's about all the rest of these religious traditions we have in the african-american...
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72% in this last election. the degree to which the republicans discovered they had a problem was in some ways astonishing because it's a problem that has been sitting out there looming for many years that occasionally they have done well. jeb bush did really well with the hispanic vote and his brother did well in texas. his brother did reasonably well in this election campaign, consistent basis the republican party is not done well with hispanics and we know they do very badly with african-americans. as long as the country is changing that creates a headwind and in trying to win presidential elections and that was an important factor that the obama campaign understood throughout 2,112,012. the romney campaign either didn't want to accept or didn't believe in is hard to know which was the case. in any case this wasn't rob on that hurt him badly. the third factor which we have all alluded to this morning is the red/but divide, the polarization of countries in. we talk about red american and blue americans some wa
72% in this last election. the degree to which the republicans discovered they had a problem was in some ways astonishing because it's a problem that has been sitting out there looming for many years that occasionally they have done well. jeb bush did really well with the hispanic vote and his brother did well in texas. his brother did reasonably well in this election campaign, consistent basis the republican party is not done well with hispanics and we know they do very badly with...
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you will just start noticing that's where they lost that election. much like the last election. two crucial facts about the 2012 presidential election. one is mitt romney and the main reason i was such a strong supporter of his was in fact that he wasn't the other guys. was that he was the best presidential candidate in my lifetime on immigration and amnesty. [applause] and given that, i happened to notice that pew research or whatever it's called, pew determines that romney won 20% of the young black male vote, which is in recent history for republicans is mind-boggling. usually republicans -- it drives me crazy that usually republicans get 3% of the black vote and i think that's because young black males want jobs and they don't want to deal with people who just stepped foot in this country. the second fact about the last election is if this country at the same demographics that it had in 1980 romney would have won a bigger landslide than ronald reagan did against jimmy carter. we were all feeling like this is 1988 game. this is going to be reagan beating carter and then like
you will just start noticing that's where they lost that election. much like the last election. two crucial facts about the 2012 presidential election. one is mitt romney and the main reason i was such a strong supporter of his was in fact that he wasn't the other guys. was that he was the best presidential candidate in my lifetime on immigration and amnesty. [applause] and given that, i happened to notice that pew research or whatever it's called, pew determines that romney won 20% of the...
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we elect them and they petraeus. but, you know, it's alive. >> i think it's important to bring it up. >> i believe if anybody is interested, we have organizations have been challenging for 10 years on a variety of fronts from small landlord, small business persons, folks just trying to keep their homes without taxes going out the window. so we are very effective in doing this kind of thing. i want to thank you very much for this book. i know that it's helped me along the way on some research i've got to do. >> good. >> something i may end up running as well. >> that was one of the difficult things, there were so many stories to tell and i had to stay focused. that was really hard. i would just go down rabbit holes -- focus. i mean, there were so many great dunbar stories. i've been getting a lot from people e-mailing me at the moment website. maybe will be in a printing some the and of the whole section of the letters that would be nice to be. >> you may have a whole section of a bookstore, you know? you know, where
we elect them and they petraeus. but, you know, it's alive. >> i think it's important to bring it up. >> i believe if anybody is interested, we have organizations have been challenging for 10 years on a variety of fronts from small landlord, small business persons, folks just trying to keep their homes without taxes going out the window. so we are very effective in doing this kind of thing. i want to thank you very much for this book. i know that it's helped me along the way on some...
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this is election day. we knew that one day would stretch into five weeks. we would get coffee, start the election, and we hear a yelp coming from the control room and the next show is on. it is a latino music show and they said the president is on the phone. and as i run in, all of the music is up, and you hear president clinton saying hello, hello, is anyone there. and still i hurl myself over and i said yes, mr. president. i understand you want to talk about getting out the vote. and i asked him at the beginning about that. and i asked many people about voting in the deal that many are not happy about corporations. and he responded. so i asked him about the fella that was convicted of killing two fbi agents. it continues to this day to maintain he didn't commit the crime. president clinton never spoke publicly about it. so he addressed it. i was there with the program and we ran back and forth, asking about the puerto rican island, the u.s. navy and at the time, asking one they would stop, i asked him about racial profiling. this is a time when ralph nade
this is election day. we knew that one day would stretch into five weeks. we would get coffee, start the election, and we hear a yelp coming from the control room and the next show is on. it is a latino music show and they said the president is on the phone. and as i run in, all of the music is up, and you hear president clinton saying hello, hello, is anyone there. and still i hurl myself over and i said yes, mr. president. i understand you want to talk about getting out the vote. and i asked...